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In the possession of the late Sir Noël Paton was a helmet reported to have once been hung in the church. It was a forgery, and Mr. J. G. Mann reports that the oldest inhabitants say that no helmet has been seen in the church since that date.

Cf. De Cosson, "Helmets and Mail," p. 91.

WINDSOR. 

1. Helm, erroneously associated with Henry VI and placed in the chapel by the Prince Consort (vide ante, vol. ii, Fig. 455).

2. Helm, erroneously associated with Edward IV, and placed in the chapel by the Prince Consort (vide ante, vol. ii, Fig. 481).

3. Great sword, second half of the XIVth century, called "The sword of Edward III" (vide ante, vol. ii, Fig. 708).

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

AYLESBURY. 

Helm, late XVth century, sold at the dispersal of the collection of Lord Londesborough in 1888, Lot 440, price £89 5s., now in the Metropolitan Museum of New York (vide ante, vol. ii, Fig. 486).

Tradition. Not known. The present sexton states that there has been no helmet in the church for the last sixty years.

Nearly all the monuments, tablets, etc., disappeared when the church was restored by Scott.

Cf. "Royal Commission on Hist. Mon." (Bucks), i, p. 22.